well I figured I would post this in my sketchbook because even though it's not art per se, I still think it's artistic and I'm damn proud of it.
Here's my arcade cabinet I built a couple of years ago. Took me around 6 months.
I started from this:
then mocked up a control panel like this:
I then bought these:
built the box of my control panel and cut the top part like this:
reprimed the whole arcade cabinet in black, then took apart the coin slots and cleaned and repainted everything like this:
then I started sketching the designs that I painted on the sides with white chalk like this:
I then painted said sides with enamel. I had red, yellow, blue, black, and white and mixed all my colors
and they look like this:
and this:
then I designed the control panel and put the whole thing together like this:
I then designed the marquee and tested the light I mounted behind it and it looked like this:
I then put the whole thing together and changed my boot screen, and it looked like this:
I do have a screen cover that doesn't show the border of my monitor or the inside of the cab, but I don't have a picture of it. it's a sheet of lexan where I spraypainted black around the panel. it's shiny from the viewer side. it looks clean as hell.
still love it to death. she's my non human baby. hope you like it! stop by and play a game sometime! it's only got like 200,000 games, and around 20,000 pinball tables. It doesn't show in the picture, but I got buttons on the sides of the cabinet for flippers and bumpers, as well as a button on the front of it for the ball plunger.